Scale invariance of immune system response rates and times: Perspectives on immune system architecture and implications for artificial immune systems

Swarm Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-318

  Banerjee, Soumya ^a   Moses, Melanie ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial immune system; Distributed search; Immune system scaling; Lymph node; Multi robot control; West Nile Virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894264562     PISSN: 19353812     EISSN: 19353820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-010-0048-2     Document Type: Article

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